Julian Hunt
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Julian Hunt is a research scholar in the Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program where he focuses on implementing daily and seasonal storage energy technologies in MESSAGE models and analyzing the impact of these technologies on long-term energy planning. His research interests include analysis of energy systems, water-energy-land interfaces, climate change risks, energy security, and energy storage.In addition to his position at IIASA, Hunt is also a visiting professor in the postgraduate program in mechanical engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, where he teaches energy storage and supervises master’s and doctoral students.
Prior to joining the S3 group, Hunt received a two-year IIASA/CAPES-Brazil research grant to map the global potential for seasonal pumped storage. He joined IIASA from the National Commission for Nuclear Energy (CNEN) in Brazil, developing hybrid nuclear and seawater desalination projects. He also previously worked at the Energy and Climate Change Branch of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
Hunt holds a D.Phil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and a B.Eng degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham.
Last update: 29 SEP 2021
Publications
Filho, W.L., Abubakar, I.R., Nunes, C., Platje, J.J., Ozuyar, P.G., Will, M., Nagy, G.J., Al-Amin, A.Q., Hunt, J. , & Li, C. (2021). Deep Seabed Mining: A Note on Some Potentials and Risks to the Sustainable Mineral Extraction from the Oceans. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9 (5) e521. 10.3390/jmse9050521.
Leal Filho, W., Hunt, J. , Lingos, A., Platje, J., Vieira, L.W., Will, M., & Gavriletea, M.D. (2021). The Unsustainable Use of Sand: Reporting on a Global Problem. Sustainability 13 (6) e3356. 10.3390/su13063356.
Vieira, L.W., Marques, A.D., Schneider, P.S., José da Silva Neto, A., Viana, F.A.C., Abdel-jawad, M., Hunt, J. , & Siluk, J.C.M. (2021). Methodology for ranking controllable parameters to enhance operation of a steam generator with a combined Artificial Neural Network and Design of Experiments approach. Energy and AI 3 e100040. 10.1016/j.egyai.2020.100040.
Hunt, J. , Zakeri, B. , Leal Filho, W., Schneider, P.S., de Assis Brasil Weber, N., Vieira, L.W., Ermel, C., de Castro, N.J., Barbosa, P.S.F., Nascimento, A., & Mastrucci, A. (2021). Swimming pool thermal energy storage, an alternative for distributed cooling energy storage. Energy Conversion and Management 230 E113796. 10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113796.
Lopes, M.A. & Hunt, J. (2021). A Amazonia na economia natural do conhecimento [Amazon in the natural knowledge economy]. In: Amazonia XXI. pp. 95-120 FGV. ISBN 978-65-86289-16-9